Saturday, November 30, 2013

Tooniversary: The True King (1968)

Time for another Three Musketeers adventure from The Banana Splits Adventure Hour.

"The True King" is, in a way, a loose adaptation of another Alexandre Dumas novel oft adapted, The Man in The Iron Mask, configured to fit into a nearly 10 minute window. Something's amiss when the King of France suddenly discharges the Musketeers without warning nor reason.

Edit: 9/13/17: The video has been deleted.

Don Messick performs triple duty (at least) as Aramis, the King, and the imposter. Not much difference to the voices, is there? Could've done without Tooly (Ted Eccles) for this one, no?

Exact-amundo. Tooly was added to give the kiddo's someone to identify with, since he wasn't in the original stories. If they did this a decade later, there'd be a chance he'd be getting the same kind of disrespect as Scrappy-Doo.